Corrupt project

[Rafael Amador]

I think that a project is corrupt when is only that project the one that cause problems. When I got problems with not only one project, them I think about the system and the application. And if what is corrupted is the project, trash the prefs is for nothing. And when I think that the project is corrupted, I open a new project and I drag everything from the brownser of the crrupted project to the new one. Save it and open it. Its works the 95% (?) of the times. Why? I don’t kno, but its works.
I belive than at least the 75% of the problems with FC happens because the system is not optimized. Boots in safe mode, repairing permisions, running maintenace and Diskwarrior o Techtools are things to do before to think about re-installing FC. And I think that trash the preffs is the last thing.
If you want to trash the prefss, you must go to Users>Your account>Librari>Prefferences>Final Cut Pro User Data>
There you got three docs with the FCs thunbnail (Final Cut Pro 5.0 Prefs/Final Cut Pro Obj Cache/Final Cut Pro Prof Cache). Those are the docs that you must trash.
I think that your RAM can be giving you problems. 4.5Gbs RAM can not be paired as is recommended.

Cheers,
rafael

[Randolph Harrison]

Thanks Rafael,

I have it all working fine now…not sure exactly which procedure helped. I had found the prefs before you responded and trashed them. I did run disc warrior on the drives, and I did figure out which clip started the problem and trashed it, too. Then the project booted again with the drives going. I’ll also look into the ram. It hasn’t given me any problems in the past.

Thank you again for all of the great advice.

Sincerely,
Randy

[Paul Wright]

How do I trash my Final Cut preferences? I’m having a startup issue. Thanks.

Paul